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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have eton mess– an english dessert of meringue, cream and strawberries using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Eton Mess– An English dessert of Meringue, Cream and Strawberries:
- Take 1 FOR MERINGUE
- Make ready 3 large egg whites at room temperature
- Prepare 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- Get 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1/8 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 FOR BERRIES
- Get 1 lb fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced
- Make ready 1/2 cup fresh blueberries
- Prepare 1/2 cup granulated sugar, divided use, half will be used for the strained strawberries the other half to sweeten the sliced strawberries and blueberries
- Prepare 1 FOR THE WHIPPED CREAM
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- Get 1/4 cup confectioners sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 1/2 tsp unflavored gelatin
- Prepare 1 FOR GARNISH
- Get 1/2 cup chocolate shavings
Steps to make Eton Mess– An English dessert of Meringue, Cream and Strawberries:
- MAKE MERINGUES
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 275
- In a large bowl beat egg whites until soft peaks, slowly add sugar, and salt and beat until stiff, add vanilla and beat in. Place 4 mounda of meringue on parchment paper. Smooth out into 1/4 inch rounds leaving a bit of space between them. Bake 1 hour, turn off oven keep door closed and leave until oven is cold, at least 2 hours. Remove from oven, cut between parchment keeping parchment attached and store in air tight containers. (keeping the parchment attached will keep the meringues from breaking until needed). This can be done up to 4 days in advance.
- MAKE BERRIES
- Place 3/4 of the strawberries in a blender and puree, strain out seeds, add 1/4 cup sugar to them, chill.
- Combine remaing sliced strawberries and blueberries in a bowl, add remaing 1/4 cup sugar and let sit to extract juice than chill.
- The berries can be prepared a day in advance
- FOR WHIPPED CREAM
- In a small heatproof bowl add 1 1/2 tablespoons cold water, add gelatin, soften 1 minute than place in a pan of simmering water just until dissolved and clear, remove to use while still liquid.
- In a chilled bowl, whip cream to soft peaks add confectioners sugar, vanilla and liquid gelatin, beat until stiff.
- Add about 1/4 cup of strawberrie puree and fold just to make a streaky look. Chill, because of the gelatin this whipped cream is stable abd should las a day or two.
- TO ASSEMBLE ETON MESS
- Right before serving, remive meringue from parchment, break into bite size pieces. Place in serving glass add some of the strawberrie blueberrie mix and some whipped cream and very gently fold, top with a bit more whipped cream, garnish with chocolate shavings and pieces of meringue.
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